Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHATEVER happened to the big brassy nightclub? It is fast disappearing, together with its chorus lines, revolving lights, oppressive waiters and stiff cover charges. Taking its place, for better or for worse, is a new phenomenon of American night life. See Music, Rise of the Music Room...
...popularity of music rooms: hi-fi has prepared people for good jazz and piano playing. "It's happening all over the city and all over the country, even in places where they've barely learned the progressive beat." he says. "They can scarcely put the pianos in fast enough...
...affecting not only comedians but the TV industry at large. While production costs have climbed, the number of the nation's TV sets has been leveling off, and the size of the audience that any show can command has been cut down by the growing competition of the fast-rising ABC network and independent stations. Thus, advertisers will have to pay more to reach a given number of viewers in the future. It is making them nervous, safe-playing, and eager for "the sure thing." This season, a Variety rundown showed last week, they have canceled...
...bitter lament called Sixteen Tons ("Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company sto' "). Aided by some ingenious orchestration, it shot to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast as any record ever made, has sold 4,000,000 copies. His two albums of spirituals became quick and steady Top Ten sellers. With his considerable record royalties and TV fees, Ernie has bought a cattle ranch, where he spends most of his free time with his wife Betty, a California girl...
...lashed 47 black-powder rockets to a bamboo frame, clambered aboard the contraption, and as 47 servants lit the fuses, so goes the legend, went on history's first rocket ride. Last week in Wall Street, the stocks of the modern rocket riders were whizzing up as fast as old Wan-Hu. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., a leader in rocket fuels, shot up 6| points in three days to a new high of 54. Reaction Motors, 50% owned by Olin, has nearly doubled in value in the past year; so has General Tire & Rubber Co., which owns...